i am so tired of screaming from the rooftops that we have a looming, avoidable crisis of evictions brewing. everyone knows it, but yet government and philanthropy have no solutions. unpaid volunteers of rent funds are doing the work that the people who control the purse strings refuse to do

In his acceptance speech for award for best screenplay, Ryan Coogler said “when you look at a blank page, think of who you love” and I dunno, that really moved me so I wrote it down and sat it on my desk to look at while I work

I don't think the "Einstein" or other AI replacing the important steps of learning, esp in higher ed, would be posing quite the challenge it is right now if students hadn't been sent the message their entire lives that the point of college is to get good grades and a high paying job, not to learn.

Will Your State Bird Disappear? -- A new study shows that tens of millions of Americans could lose the chance to see their state bird due to climate change. https://therevelator.org/state-birds-climate/

Center Black disabled people. That’s all I got right now.

Is the president mocking the U.S. women’s hockey team on a celebratory call with the men’s team going to attract even an iota of the sustained handwringing that the idea of trans athletes disadvantaging women’s sports has gotten

55+ communities should not be the only communities being built with accessibility in mind.

Proposed tax breaks for data centers would increase taxes for poor Coloradans, analysts say

thinking about how Savannah Guthrie had to cancel her trip to work the Olympics because of her mom’s kidnapping but the guy who heads up the investigative body handling the case was posting pictures of himself in the US hockey locker room today lol

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

2026 has my atheist ass out here going "Man, the Pope is on fire lately"

I want to make muffins but I don't want to clean the pan so I haven't made muffins.

When I get top surgery I'll probably start wearing vests and ties again.

We just got five inches of heavy damp snow overnight that I had to dig my car out of, and the noreaster is going mostly south of us which will hopefully mean I don't have to dig my car out again tomorrow morning. Or maybe the snow is lighter since it's colder, I would also accept that.

Grew up catholic and still have a lot of problems with the catholic church but I respect this a lot especially after my Presbyterian uncle used AI to write my grandpa's obituary and eulogy.

In this essay, I explore how the classical Chinese story of the Rabbit God has been reinterpreted across the global Chinese diaspora in recent years, highlighting creative reimaginings that promote an open and undogmatic vision of queer Chinese identity and heritage.

Still thinking about them. Even if you doubt their capacity to love, you can't doubt their ability to provide care. Hunter doesn't directly benefit from helping Stan eat. I think there's evidence all around us that care and cooperation are the reason we're alive.

Turns out I am not the first person to have this idea and post about it on the internet, there are a ton of inspo pictures, and I have weird friends who are all aboard.

As millions worldwide break their fasts during Ramadan, escalate the boycott of companies implicated in Israel’s crimes against Palestinians.

I would not have been able to teach Intro to Cultural Anthropology as a GTA under these restrictions, we basically had class discussion time devoted to every one of these banned topics. You can't teach about society without talking about the structures of society.

My birthday is right at the end of my hysterectomy recovery timeline so part of me thinks it would be funny to get a uterus shaped birthday cake but that may be too weird for some folks. But I do want to ritually stab the offending organ after getting it physically removed, that sounds like closure.

Call your house rep and tell them to support HB 2540 which will increase the amount disabled people can save from $2k to $10k and remove the marriage penalty where you lose your only source of income if you get married regardless of how little they make. Switchboard: (202) 224-3121

I hope she’s the beginning of a major culture change.

As a trans woman I see the same vaccine-free ideology that exposes children to dangerous and preventable diseases also pushing the notion that life-saving trans healthcare for kids is a terrible scourge. It’s not about health, it’s the obsessive need for control even if it harms their own kids.

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

Gall of the week is caused by the cynipid wasp Pediaspis aceris on sycamores, Acer spp. A recent arrival in the UK. Photo by Stephane Claerebout from bladmineerders.nl

Federal officials now project that Lake Powell will "most probably" drop below power pool level — meaning Glen Canyon Dam will no longer be able to generate hydropower — before the end of this year: www.landdesk.org/p/the-colora... via @landdesk.bsky.social

you can't work with Republicans. you can't compromise with them either. you either win or they do.

"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls

Please help this family

I'm watching #StarTrek #Discovery for the first time and diagnose me with stupid bitch disease because I love Empress Georgiou!!! I love baddies! I love evil bitches!!!!

We're horseposting post your horses. *whinnying noises*

Amazon just saved nearly $8B on its 2025 tax bill — despite profits hitting $90B — thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill. Remember: Amazon spent $75M producing and marketing the Melania movie, while Jeff Bezos gave $1M to Trump's inaugural fund. Quite a return on investment, huh?

the analogy I use with friends and family all the time is the jump from collegiate to professional sports. as soon as I explain it that way, it clicks in their brains what the academic job market is like.

Native people lived in the grand canyon when it became a park and the first park rangers forced them to leave because their presence interfered with the story of "untouched wilderness" and they wanted to build hotels for rich white people to view the canyon.

The order to put signage back at Presidents House really affected me. A lot of work has been put in at NPS over the years to tell a truer history, to build better relationships with communities. It was hard seeing that work shredded. I hope the signage about Indian removal at GRCA comes back next.

Without corporate collaborators, ICE could not carry out violent raids, operate sprawling detention centers, or deport people at scale. These corporations are enabling violence on the streets and death behind barbed wire. It’s time to boycott them. Watch.

I think the ease of engaging with and consuming art has done a lot to mask how much time and practice goes into creating art. Plus people don't really have a baseline participation in creating art so they aren't even aware of how impressive even the things they think are bad really are.

Man-made climate change intensified the rain that fell over Spain’s Valencia region in 2024, when flash floods and landslides caused at least 230 deaths and an estimated €29 billion in damages FREE read via @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I encourage everyone to sit with the term "ethics waiver" for a minute.

Disabled lesbian birds at the zoo near where I used to live.

My favorite adaptions of texts that I love—LOTR and DUNE being only two examples—are not strict adaptations anyway; key changes were made in translation from book to film that *recognized what different mediums demand and where strengths and weaknesses lie* Generative AI doesn’t know any of that

Sending this to the science and #invertebrates feeds. @xercessociety.bsky.social does great work! 🧪

Ramadan begins tonight - a month of fasting, with each day ending in a lovely iftar (meal). Sama’a is worried she won’t be able to provide iftar for her family 💔 This will be the first Ramadan that Julia will remember…your support will help Sama’a make sweet memories 🤍 chuffed.org/project/157569

Winter-to-date temperature departure from normal. Currently on track to be the 2nd warmest winter on record (1895-present).

We're fighting like hell for #Hellbenders by suing the Fish and Wildlife Service to force the agency to set a binding date to enact federal protections for them under the #ESA. This prehistoric #salamander faces tremendous threats from activities that harm rivers and streams ➡️ bit.ly/46XwSBI

Bluesky is problematic in the way it treats Palestinian people. Pls stop suspending all of our friends. How can they establish mutual trust and build community online for their campaigns to survive when their accounts disappear every five minutes?! Making it easier for scammers to impersonate them!

Discovered today that Instagram had turned on (without my opt-in) automatic AUDIO translation of any reel that shows up in my feed not in English USING AI TO MIMIC THE SPEAKER’S VOICE and WOW it was creepy and upsetting. You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻‍♀️

“Each person who visits the President’s House and does not learn of the realities of founding-era slavery receives a false account of this country’s history.” — U.S. District Judge Cynthia M. Rufe 🔗 www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

The American Academy of Actuaries warns that dismantling NCAR would degrade the catastrophe models insurers depend on to price climate risk—driving up premiums and threatening coverage availability nationwide. "Uncertainty carries a positive cost." www.riskmarketnews.com/trumps-clima...